ReCITE: Lighthouse CIT v1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Evaluation of a quality improvement project to increase uptake of pertussis vaccination among pregnant refugees, asylum seekers and non-English speakers
IRAS ID
358986
Contact name
Charlotte Hemingway
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 10 months, 30 days
Research summary
The research will be conducted by a multidisciplinary team of health providers, public health practitioners, researchers and women with lived experience of pregnancy in the asylum system, known as Lighthouse Community Innovation Team (CIT).
Lighthouse CIT is implementing a quality improvement project within Liverpool Women’s Hospital (LWH) to address barriers to pertussis vaccination during pregnancy for asylum seekers, refugees, and non-English-speaking women. The team have developed creative and image-based health information material - “pregnancy journey” - in five different languages to assist women in navigating the health system during their pregnancy and to better understand what health services they are entitled to and how to access them. Materials include an animated video introducing the pertussis vaccine that is displayed hospital waiting areas and accessible via QR codes on printed material and via the Improving Me app. The CIT will also raise awareness of the asylum experience among health professionals using a film and resources produced by Liverpool Lighthouse from a previous collaboration with the LWH.
Lighthouse CIT will conduct a mixed-methods evaluation of the quality improvement project, comprising three components. Firstly, qualitative interviews with LWH staff who participated in the CIT, or are involved in supporting pregnant women at Non-English Speaking Team (NEST) clinic and have been exposed to the quality improvement intervention. The second method is short interviews (Chat) with pregnant women, who are asylum seekers, refugees or non-English speakers, attending the NEST clinic during their exposure to the interventions. Lastly, analysis of routinely collected, pseudo-anonymised data on Pertussis vaccination uptake among pregnant women attending the NEST clinic, broken down by demographic group (Refugees, Asylum seekers, and non-English speakers), language, ethnicity, and age group to identify changes in rates of vaccine uptake among targeted women.REC name
North West - Haydock Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
26/NW/0065
Date of REC Opinion
24 Mar 2026
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion